Wednesday, February 26, 2014

happy day

I'm honored to be guesting at my friend Mariana Grigsby's blog today!
If you don't know Mariana, you'll want stop by and see her inspiring cards and layouts.
She has a wonderful style and I love her start-to-finish videos that are fun to watch.

Mariana has started having monthly themes on her blog, and February's theme is
BUTTERFLIES & HEARTS.

I was asked to create and share a card based on the theme and here it is.

See the hexagon background? I call it "water stamping with a stencil".
After ink distressing white card stock with distress inks, I spritzed some water
on a stencil and pressed it on the inked surface.

When I lifted the stencil, the wet portion took away the color
and left behind a "ghost" image. After drying the surface with a heat gun, I gold embossed
the sentiment and added some hearts and butterfly punched from gold card stock.

I have NEVER seen this technique before...Donna, you are gonna have to start doing some video, you know that, right? This card looks amazeball!!!! I love the color combo, the wet stencil look and the gold embossing...hot mama, it's gorgeous!

Another gorgeous card, Donna! The colors are so gorgeous and your water stamping technique is awesome. Love it as usual!! Thank you for showing The Big, the Bold, and the Happy stamp set so much love and linking up.